Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
NameGabriel AHLANDER 
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746Birth13 Nov 1905, Utah3639, place only,4719, date only
Death27 May 2003, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah4719 Age: 97
FatherHerman Julius AHLANDER (1870-1959)
MotherInga Marie Halvorsen JORGENSDATTER (1874-1958)
Individual Notes
• Age 20 at 1st marriage.3639
Census Data
• 1930 Census: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. Age 27, b UT. Presser, dept. store. Parents b Norway.3639
Directories
• Ahlander, Gabriel & Virginia E; retd. h928 W. 7th South St.1849
Spouses
Birth1902, Sweden7730,3639, place only
Immigration19253639 Age: 23
Death7 Jan 1931, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah7730 Age: 29
Individual Notes
• Salt Lake City, Jan. 7.––(AP)––Jealousy was blamed by police today for the suicide of a young wife and shooting of her two little children, one of them probably fatally.
Leaving her husband at a dance where she had accompanied him earlier in the evening, Mrs. Alma Elizabeth Ahlander returned home and after writing a farewell note, shot her two sons, aged 2 and 4 years, and put a bullet through her own heart, the officers decided after an investigation.
In the note, Mrs Ahlander asked that her parents in Sweden be told she had been killed in an automobile accident, and said: “I am thinking that other women should know what married life is.” She added she had not left her husband because she did not want to take the children from their father.
The husband, Gabriel Ahlander, was released after being questioned by police. The younger son, Floyd, was shot twice near the heart. The other, Clyde, was shot but once but is expected to die.
The officers said they were satisfied Ahlander had remained at the dance when his wife left about 10 p.m. Shortly after midnight a neighbor heard shots in the Ahlander home. When the husband reached home he called the police, who found the wife dead and the two children seriously wounded in their bed. A pistol lay on the floor with five discharged cartridges and an unused one in it.
Ahlander told police, they said, that he and his wife had been drinking and he believed his wife was angry because he had been dancing with other women. Police said the husband was hysterical and apparently partly under the influence of liquor when they arrived at the house.8642
Leaving her husband at a dance where she had accompanied him earlier in the evening, Mrs. Alma Elizabeth Ahlander returned home and after writing a farewell note, shot her two sons, aged 2 and 4 years, and put a bullet through her own heart, the officers decided after an investigation.
In the note, Mrs Ahlander asked that her parents in Sweden be told she had been killed in an automobile accident, and said: “I am thinking that other women should know what married life is.” She added she had not left her husband because she did not want to take the children from their father.
The husband, Gabriel Ahlander, was released after being questioned by police. The younger son, Floyd, was shot twice near the heart. The other, Clyde, was shot but once but is expected to die.
The officers said they were satisfied Ahlander had remained at the dance when his wife left about 10 p.m. Shortly after midnight a neighbor heard shots in the Ahlander home. When the husband reached home he called the police, who found the wife dead and the two children seriously wounded in their bed. A pistol lay on the floor with five discharged cartridges and an unused one in it.
Ahlander told police, they said, that he and his wife had been drinking and he believed his wife was angry because he had been dancing with other women. Police said the husband was hysterical and apparently partly under the influence of liquor when they arrived at the house.8642
Census Data
• 1930 Census: Alameda, Alameda, California. Age 27, b Sweden. Parents b Sweden. Age 23 at 1st marriage.3639
Marriage22 Mar 1926, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah7731, p 1
ChildrenClyde Herman (Died as Child) (1926-1931)
Floyd (Died as Child) (1928-1931)
Birth19 Mar 1910, Salt Lake City?, Salt Lake, Utah151, p 2
Death12 Apr 1997, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah4719 Age: 87
FatherEdwin S. KERRICK (1869-1916)
MotherNina Winslow ECKART (1874-1951)
Individual Notes
• Mr. Kerrick is survived by a widow, Mrs. Nina Eckart Kerrick, one child, Virginia, aged 5.748
• Daughter: Mrs. G. Ahlander.746
• They drove from Arizona to Southern California (on their way home to Utah) to visit with us, and give us some memorabilia from her grandfather, Isaac Roberts Eckart. The date was 19 Mar 1992, Virginia’s 82nd birthday. Virginia called and talked with Gretchen and suggested dinner at their motel in San Gabriel. We couldn’t make dinner, so Gretchen visited with them that afternoon for about an hour, and took some photographs. The Ahlanders are in good health, and they still enjoy dancing. We will try to visit them in Salt Lake City some time.
Source: David W. Mills, 18 Apr 1992
• Daughter: Mrs. G. Ahlander.746
• They drove from Arizona to Southern California (on their way home to Utah) to visit with us, and give us some memorabilia from her grandfather, Isaac Roberts Eckart. The date was 19 Mar 1992, Virginia’s 82nd birthday. Virginia called and talked with Gretchen and suggested dinner at their motel in San Gabriel. We couldn’t make dinner, so Gretchen visited with them that afternoon for about an hour, and took some photographs. The Ahlanders are in good health, and they still enjoy dancing. We will try to visit them in Salt Lake City some time.
Source: David W. Mills, 18 Apr 1992
Marriage7 Oct 1944, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah7731, p 2
No Children